The mystery of a washed-up 15-feet long seabeast is unravelling after experts had their say on the seemingly unidentifiable creature. Dubbed the Ainsdale Anomaly, the stinking remains were spotted on a Merseyside beach last Wednesday and have sparked debate as far away as New Zealand. Some people thought it was a cow, a horse, a … Read more
Mystery as bizarre 15ft creature with ‘flippers’ and ‘fur’ washes up on beach in Merseyside An unidentifiable creature washed up on a beach in Liverpool on Wednesday The 15-foot long headless beast is furry, has flippers and is badly decomposed Locals have speculated that it is a woolly mammoth, a walrus – even an alien By Clare … Read more
‘Is this the legendary lake monster?’ Chinese residents are stunned after spotting a ‘mysterious’ creature lurking in a reservoir Villagers claimed a lake monster could have appeared in a pond in central China Footage shows a slim-shaped creature swimming up and down in the reservoir Some web users suspected the ‘mythical beast’ to be a … Read more
‘Long stringy stingy thingy’: Bizarre glowing tentacle-like creature made up of THOUSANDS of tiny organisms is spotted off the coast of Australia Creature is believed to be a siphonophore which looks like a single animal It is thought the outer ring has a circumference of 150ft (47metres) It has stinging tentacles and is made of … Read more
A worm-like creature that lived more than half a billion years ago has been discovered which is the ancestor for almost all living creatures. The creature, called Ikaria wariootia, lived around 555 million years ago and was found in Australia. It is the earliest known bilaterian, a creature with both a front and back, two symmetrical sides … Read more
A prehistoric sea creature that swam in the oceans and walked on land 380 million years ago had ‘fingers’, making it a ‘missing link’ in the evolution of the human hand. The fish ‘fingers’ on ‘Elpistostege watsoni’ enabled our primitive sea-dwelling ‘relative’ to make the transition from water to land, experts claim. An international team … Read more
Mysterious 300-million-year-old ‘Tully monster’ may not be the creature scientists thought it was – as new research reveals it wasn’t a vertebrate after all Tullimonstrum, also known as the Tully monster, lived 300 million years ago It has baffled scientists since fossils were first discovered 60 years ago A 2016 discovery of stiffened cartilage classified Tully … Read more
Bizarre half-alligator, half-fish creature which can grow up to ten feet in length is found on British canal path Caroline Brown, 51, spotted the carcass on the footpath in Risca, south Wales The bizarre creature had long snout and razor-sharp teeth with the body of a fish It is now thought to be alligator gar usually … Read more